Ballad of Robert Kent

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Ballad of Robert Kent

Yes my name is Robert Kent I’m aware of all the time I spent / Robbing banks shooting folks and doing all these deeds that it regret

Yes though I’m a wicked man my path was not always cut from stone / though I am a lonely man there was a time when I was not alone

Happy man was I happy home and happy family / until the day that I returned and found my wife with my best friend E-Lee

Children were playing in the clover by the barn/ I pulled out my 45 and shot Lee in the arm/ Steers they spooked and bolted crushed my little ones/ bullet passed through his left arm and stuck my own true love/ shot my own true love with my own gun.

When the dust had cleared looked around at all the deeds I’d done/ smiled to my self I turned ended old E-Lee’s life just for fun

With a match and gasoline I bid farewell to my oldhome and farm/ turned my back on those I loved cloud of dust and blood in old Lee’s car.

Drove that Ford across the state it ran out of gas in Tennessee/ stole my self another one and robbed the first big bank that I did see.

Police light were flashing but I was having fun/ three of those Poor bastards met the muscle of my gun/ when the night was over I was a free man/ fifty thousand dollars 45 in my right hand / gun in my right hand I’m a free man.

Three years on the road I spent robbing banks and living by my gun / money flowed from those I killed but I’ll admit it wasn’t always fun.

They caught me down in Mexico said I wouldn’t go without a fight / but when they came for me at last I threw down my guns at dawns first light.

Now I sit in this here cell you would think that it would bother me/ all the awful things I done but now I just miss my family.

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from Floodplain, released July 14, 2017

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